Category: Politics

Absolute Sabotage Series

The Big Lie

It was absolute sabotage! One thing is undeniably true - the activities of a handful of individuals had a significant impact on our election process, our Republic, our future, and ultimately - Truth. Whether you are inclined to believe this was merely a "boomer conspiracy" gone wild - many of the protagonists in the story are over seventy (fabulous stories of super-secret artificial intelligence systems used for nefarious purposes are just the sort of thing we have seen many in that age bracket fall for over the last several years). Or, perhaps you see a series of unlikely coincidences and detect a pattern and see all of this as a long-running plan and conspiracy by a few (a minor part of something larger). Either way, one thing is true - this conspiracy peddling club caused all efforts seeking election integrity after the 2020 election to look like a circus.

Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium was the climax, a symposium to evaluate data, where no data existed - and the smell of known fraudsters and proven purveyors of lies and absurdities surrounded the entire drama, poisoning it, you almost could not have planned it all any better and perhaps that is the biggest indicator of all.

There are a couple of questions that remain - we will address those in time - but all the relevant pieces of information are out there for any rational person to deduce plausible conclusions. In the big picture, the activities of the fools, liars, charlatans, and conspirators (yes I am convinced), are one minor footnote in the totality of what has and is happened. Their efforts likely mean and ensure we will never have free- and fair elections again because even questioning processes and outcomes look insane now - they all may be minor and insignificant but they had an impact.

Contrary to what many that may write about this subject and argue that it was all one thing - just focus on one thing they will say and never speak of a long line of unlikely coincidences - more than enough "coincidences" in the LEO world to draft a warrant or in my former profession to add someone to a catch and interrogate target list - anyone diminishing the full nature of this simply ought not to be listened to.  People, either just ignorant or absolutely nefarious, have voices that influence many others, they used those voices to poison a narrative related to one of our most important processes - that is a fact whether you believe they conspired or stumbled into it, they had a tremendously negative impact either way.  If we cannot collectively use discernment, reason, and common sense to see the trees in the forest and figure out those that ought to be cut down, well nothing else really matters. This story, more than anything is one concerning our collective lack of critical thinking and our weakness to the words of sophist and snake oil salesmen.

All the characters in this story matter little - what matters, what really matters is most of us were unable to see the true nature of the acts, the lies, and those that covered for bad acts. From a future historian's perspective, I suspect all of this will play a rather significant role in understanding our collective demise. Put a bookmark on all these events, they had meaning but our inability to spot them and act, well that was significant in ways we yet do not understand.

Acknowledgments

The Post & Email and specifically Sharon Rondeau - Without her hard work piecing together, events from 2010 thru 2017 much of this story would be unknown and it would be impossible to display the big picture narrative.

Lead Stories, specifically Maarten Schenk - Their 30 April 2021 piece is well researched and sourced. (Lead Stories)

Clare Locke LLP - The attorneys for Dominion included information in their complaint that is extraneous and bizarre to some and dismissed by others. The Dominion suit will not address the big picture narrative or tackle the full scope of what has occurred, but it is worth watching to see what the intent behind some of the disclosures may be. (complaint)

J.R. Nyquist - Both writers here have taken exception with elements of Mr. Nyquist's coverage but we also acknowledge he took personal financial risk and loss by doing his work on this topic. A fair assessment of his effort would say that he wrote the story in a way that people could grasp, making the additional connections via what we assess to be clear and obvious facts would not have changed anything. To be clear, we disagreed with Nyquist and thought he did not go far enough and avoided the hottest topics - our questions were meant to spark a further investigation. Nothing we said was intended to disparage his character. (the phrase "Absolute Sabotage" is Nyquist's creation)

"Frances Madsen" and other anonymous online entities - You are all seen and appreciated, telling truth as you can and seeking truth.

Timeline of events with links (incomplete) that we used to arrive at our conclusions - (Timeline)

All of our work, minus the pieces that laid out all the facts related to who Mary Fanning is, are still published, they are, however, invisible at present. We suspect that this story has run its course, that little if anything will ever become of it. The appetite of "truth-seekers" has been satiated, no major media personalities are interested in picking it up, the Lindell suit will touch on parts of it, but perhaps in a twisted and partial way.

We thank you for your interest, we appreciate those that have contacted us in anger and we enjoyed dialoguing with those that sought to see this for what it is.

 

 

Graybeards, Color Revolution, and the Yellow Wood

Last year, in the late spring and certainly by mid-summer, guys like me began talking. I have my own boring tale of that ‘adventure’ it is not relevant to the story. Here is what is relevant.

Many of us began to see the same patterns and have the same concerns; we began to reach out to one another, to help explain it all. In many ways, the retired (as in recently retired) military community is not that large. My little group that rallied together had many commonalities in what we did in the latter part of our careers, we often served together. But it is larger than that, people have friends in other places, and what we found was that others were coming together and thinking the same sorts of things, "something is wrong". It all looks coordinated, the level of coordination is state-actor level, it looks like various methodologies are being utilized in an almost doctrinal fashion.

An awful lot of cross-talk occurred across little informal groups.

My little merry band of compatriots approached it semi-formally, in a whimsical way at first, and then rather seriously. Among us were guys of various military specialties, what we had in common was that toward the end of our careers at each we worked exclusively in the intelligence or electromagnetic space (space is a very odd civilian word, but it paints the picture). Some came from special forces, others from civil affairs, and one a career military police guy. Scattered throughout were men that went on to pursue law enforcement careers. Yes, we were all men, there was a large social aspect to the effort initially. We even had two lawyers, odd birds at first, but critical later because of their operational experience. All of us knew one or two guys somewhere that was talking a lot more frequently to their circle, some informally, others much more formally. We shared thoughts, observations, and ideas in that decentralized way.

Here are some things to know:

  • Retired military guys are stubborn, headstrong, and cock-sure. Sometimes, oftentimes, in fact, rank and the dog-butt-smelling routine of measuring schools and assignments still come into play. Many of us believe we know what we know and we are often the most difficult with each other.
  • “Evidence” in the military setting, as in knowing enough about a thing to know what you are looking at is vastly different than evidence sufficient for an LEO to present a case, and much less comprehensive than what a lawyer needs to argue a case.
  • A lot more than two paths diverged in a yellow wood last year. From my assessment, my observation, and this is of course very informal as most communication across hodge-podge groups was just a guy talking to a guy – but essentially beyond the basic fundamentals, there was much disagreement. Almost everyone that reported agreeing that what was happening was coordinated, looked like a state-actor, and used doctrinal methodology. The divisions and divergence in the wood all centered on BY WHOM (the totality of the who), AGAINST WHO, and WHY (beyond the obvious objectives embedded into the methodologies observed. We all easily painted the obvious targets, there was disagreement on the purpose. This disagreement is still obvious today as some groups have become more vocal and public. (more on that below)

What about the evidence I mentioned above, the way of knowing what we believed we knew. At the operational level in the military decisions are made by conducting what is called an Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB). All the knowns and assumptions are gathered, plotted, charted, weighed, and out of that Likely Enemy Courses of Action (LECOA) are developed. Commanders and their staff then attempt to hijack the enemy's decision loop by creating their own Courses of Action (COA) that take advantage of what is known and assumed. It is not overly complex at the tactical and operational levels.

If you move up in complexity, to the strategic level and beyond, to Wicked Problems, it is similar, but not exactly. 2020 was a wicked problem. Wicked problems require design methodology to solve or even to define. You still do something similar to IPB, but now it involves assessments (Intelligence, social, economic, political). Very often these assessments disagree, on their face; there seems to be no connecting thread. That complexity is what makes a wicked problem so wicked.

Here is the key take-away, and this is specifically why different groups, all beginning with a basis of commonality in language, foundational experience, education, and outlook diverged so greatly after seeing the core of the problem. Many of them used IPB (datapoints, intelligence, and operational observation) to try to explain a wicked problem.

I may be, no I am, stubborn, headstrong, and cock-sure, I could be wrong when I say that other groups, some now very public, evaluated this wrong – they missed the rest of the BY WHOM, AGAINST WHO, and WHY. I may be those things, but I stand on the assertion that this was a wicked problem and involved many more groups and people than simply saying “the democrats” or “the deep state” (without really acknowledging what that term ultimately means).

Here is a sample of what my little group produced. (Initial Report: 202004015-A) We released the full report last year to selected legislators, we will never in our lifetime post the full report publically. We have ceased operations (mostly) we are a bonfire and beer club now, I am the only member of the group with a public persona, we believe it is that dire, that complex, and that much of a problem.

All our work agreed with that of others, fundamentally, state capture or color revolution methodology was used, supporting that were information operations (INFO OPS), psychological operations (PSYOPS), and a heavy dose of private partnership (controlled media narrative) and non-governmental organization (NGO) involvement.

Where we disagreed, and hardly anyone that speaks of this and agrees with us still speaks publically, is in the scope. We came to see that this could not and was not happening to benefit one party, that it could not have been pulled off by one party, it was transnational in nature. Most others saw it as international and binary – I believe because they used the wrong methodology to evaluate it all.

Since last summer the term Color Revolution has become associated with a few things. MAGA, Trump, and Election fraud simply because the most vocal of groups of greybeards see it that way and discuss it in those terms. There was even a very public effort to solidify this concept by Tucker Carlson and Darren Beattie.[1]

My former merry band, now somber jokesters that drink beer and used gallows humor we watch the world burn, we all agree that we strongly disagree with those people – turning the very real thing that happened into nothing more than a catch-phrase for partisan rally words is dangerous, flawed, and ultimately destructive. If only a small element of society will even utter the phrase, and the other side of an increasingly false dialectic sees it as nothing more than a dog-whistle, nobody will ever talk about the real problem.

This is of course exactly what has happened. The population, in general, will not even hear arguments about election fraud and what that really means. Those that are interested in the subject will not step back and evaluate the intricate deception operation that poisoned that effort.[2] We have been separated, deceived, divided, and frog-marched right into the consolidation phase[3] without even seeing the game being played. (see more about my interpretation of our Color revolution here [4], [5], [6], [7]).

@onlyBarryLClark

A Ten-Year Conspiracy

This article was published on 11 August, I removed it on 17 August. It would have remained unseen, except I am not easily intimidated.  See the complete explanation of what and why at the end of the article. I have made edits to the original, those are denoted in maroon.  - Summary of the complete series here.

This is a story of millionaires, billionaires, ‘journalists’, felons, 'former' CIA officers, retired generals, popular podcasters, and ‘conservative’ alternative media personalities. At the center of it is a woman that never appears publicly or on camera and few have bothered to even ask who she is, those that have asked often fall prey to false online personas intended to mislead as to her identity (we believe we know, but if she is who the information points to, it is explosive).

-- Mary Fanning, the online persona that nobody has ever seen was unmasked in the Dominion v Lindell complaint. Yahoo Finance broke the story down back in April, although with so much left-bias few on the right paid any attention. It took us less than a day or so to find domain registrations from Fanning's work originally under the name of K and numerous other proofs tying the persona to the person. It is not hard to piece together who Fanning, the individual front and center to the story is; I did not include that in this article because, at the foundation, it is not important to the story, until it is.

A person going by Frances Madsen has been all over the Fanning story since Nyquist first began writing about it and so often denied facts that were so clear and obvious a junior INTEL analyst could not help but stumble over them. See her comments for details (here) if you wish, she had most of this deduced long ago.

What if I told you that the evidence indicates people were planning to corrupt the 2020 election and then pollute efforts to question that as early as 2011? What if I showed you that the same people involved in the story in 2011 appeared over and over throughout, ultimately playing a key role in early 2021 in providing what certainly appears to be false data that ultimately would make the entire election fraud narrative look absurd and loony?

If the absolute proof domain registrations in 2011 seem a bit of a stretch, even if it is an odd coincidence, consider this. Sharon Rondeau at The Post & Email covered the story of Dennis Montgomery's activities in Maricopa County more than anyone. She reports the following:

Fanning first made herself known to this writer in 2010 or 2011, purporting to be concerned about the Obama presidency and its effects on the nation. During her occasional unsolicited phone calls over the next several years, Fanning would ask questions which we knew at the time, despite her apparent show of sincerity, could have sought information for a purpose other than mere personal interest. (P&E)

What an odd coincidence for Mary Fanning to reach out to the very woman that would eventually cover the Montgomery/Arpaio story a full three years before Montgomery showed up at the MCSO door. It would appear that Arpaio was an easy mark, a man with a proven history of going after revelations no matter how nebulous. If there existed a conspiracy to release the hammer story via media attention and court records, Arpaio appears a likely mark for such. (Who Let The Hammer Out?)

-- When a series of coincidences follow in order, resulting in an outcome, that is an indicator. It is a fact that Mary K registered Absolute Proof domains in 2011, the eventual name used by Lindell. (they have a plausible explanation for this coincidence). And even if you are disinclined to accept that explanation, that act alone is not a smoking gun. But it has to be considered in light of all the additional coincidences that followed over the next ten years. It seems the name certainly survived the decade.

We have proven in this series that Fanning registered two domains in 2011 with variations of “absolute proof”, the eventual name of the documentaries that she and/or Brannon Howse would produce for Mike Lindell. (perhaps insignificant, but Fanning poking around Rondeau in 2010 certainly is interesting)  We have discussed how Dennis Montgomery showed up at Sherriff Joe Arpaio’s door in 2013/4 with fabulous tales of surveillance and a stack of data. Arpaio seemed the perfect mark to get the story of the data and “the Hammer” in the news and in court records. [1]  We have demonstrated how the Fanning persona came back into the story in 2017 to grab it and “make it her own”. We laid out how an interconnected group of influencers and podcasters, along with retired generals [2], boosted the story beginning in 2017.[3] All of this culminated in early 2021 when the Fanning persona, by all accounts, hooked into Mike Lindell as he became the central voice behind all efforts related to election integrity and election fraud. The narrative, crafted as early as 2011 became the central feature of the election fraud effort, it was poisoned.

We have demonstrated that there are many 'former' CIA officers and CIA adjacent folks all around this story; boosting it, defaming small portions of it and in some cases muddying the waters. Why so much spook involvement? That is an indicator.

Overall, this is huge, enormous and the implications far-reaching. If nothing else was occurring in the world, those facts above, standing alone are perhaps as big as Watergate. And yet, they do not stand alone, unconnected to other events. More disturbingly, nobody in the fourth estate, not even minor journalist are connecting the dots and asking the right questions. If a conspiracy to corrupt election integrity efforts existed since 2011, it follows that there was also a plan to actually corrupt an election. That alone is earth-shattering news. It is a Big Story. Based upon a reasonable examination of the facts, such a conspiracy did and does exist, it is being executed mostly, publicly at least, by people that purport to be conservative.

But this story does not exist in a vacuum.  Perhaps it is time we all look at 2020 in a very different light, all of the events that led to division, confusion, deception, and ultimately chaos and fraud; how can they all be unrelated if they all built toward and enabled the same effect?[4]  If we can prove one long-running conspiracy in all of this, does that not shed new light on all the other ‘coincidences.’ Might even doubters begin to wonder about the true nature of Qanon, ANTIFA, BLM, and Covid? All of that in one year, each thing viewed separately is very odd, and smells odd; taken together, particularly in light of a provable 10-year conspiracy to corrupt an election – that is profound.

Why has the media not uncovered this, even alternative and d-list journalists?  Why are they happy to point out that Lindell’s data is corrupted and merely blame it on one character with a very checkered past? Why not seek to know the bigger story? Perhaps, in the case of the MSM, for the same reason, they have told literally no truth in the last two years. As to minor folks, maybe some of them are afraid, others might be adjacent to the club that promoted the lies.[5]

If you have never believed that the United States was subjected to a color revolution - maybe because that term has been polluted by folks that are ill-informed, have objective bias, or perhaps worse [6] – well, it is time to reconsider your position. If a 10-year conspiracy exists it proves intent, that it was executed by ‘conservatives” proves the scope of “controlled opposition”, the complicity of the media demonstrates how far they will go and likely how far they went with other stories to perpetuate disinformation; all of those are indicators of color revolution methodology at play.[7]

This story of millionaires, billionaires, ‘journalists’, felons, “former” CIA officers, retired generals, popular podcasters is not just an aside. It is not just a one-off. It is a big story, if it stood alone, it would be huge if covered properly. But it does not stand alone. It is just one line of effort in something much larger.

@onlyBarryLClark

 

13 September 2021 edits

I received an email and a phone call from the husband of one of the characters in the story above. Despite whatever his intentions with the conversation were, he inadvertently confirmed things I only suspected during our talk. I was going to say no more about this, but only a fool tries to use third-grade intimidation techniques on me. I have not mentioned his name, his wife is by her own action a public figure and I have only written truth and commentary on observations here.

I have readded this article because it is important, there are some dark truths here and it must be said, even if most people never connect all the dots. Some have written about this, on the edges mostly. The most active writer (Nyquist) peppers all of his articles with subtle claims that all of the group that was involved in pushing this false story since 2017 (Howse, Fanning, and their various lackeys and associates) were just confused. You cannot look at the totality of this thing and not see a bad actor's involvement. Perhaps many around the story were simply dupes, but the more you get to the center of all the coincidences the more likely you have found a bad actor.

And make no mistake - this whole story, the effort to paint a false narrative about nonexistent systems touted by a known conman had an effect. The search for election integrity looks absurd now because so much absurdity was injected into it. If you look at all the facts, the trail of coincidences you see strong indicators that that absurdity entered the discussion intentionally. Anyone that is serious about the truth and unafraid and has a desire to write and speak about this would see those indicators.

Those that propagated and nurtured this story from 2014 on, whether they were fools that fell for anything or, more nefariously they (some) were perhaps part of a plan to cause the very outcome we saw (questions of election integrity belittled as a circus act), either way, this group is responsible for a small part of the demise of America (Fanning, Howse, McInerney and that entire conspiracy club that has spread so many obvious absurdities). Whether they were duped or part of a plan, either way, they have proven themselves unworthty to have a platform and a voice.  More to the point, what of the thousands that listen to them, their lies about Hammer and Scorecard, PCAP, and more might be the worst of it, but there were signs for years - what of the responsibility of reasonable people, journalists, and people of goodwill? How did it get this bad? Why were these people not laughed off the internet years ago? Why can so few now address our collective failure to rebuke these people long before they were able to poison the Republic?

Few will grasp what this means, nobody wants to write the full story but it would be immoral not to point it out while I have the strength to do so. All the datapoints are out there, go piece it together yourself and ask rational questions - was this all just massive stupidity, or was it intentional (either way, the people involved ought not to have a public platform).

Truth seems powerless now in this age of absurdity and deception. Why has no serious journalist asked any of these questions? Why do the only people that write about it tread around obvious conclusions so meekly and fecklessly? For the same reasons that so many other things about our world are not tackled head-on, with eyes open, hearts full, and all the facts on the table. Most of the population is simply incapable of even caring about the potential implications of this one piece of the puzzle.

Here is the bottomline - this information will not change the world. We face too many asymmetric threats and are surrounded by too much deception, very often deception perpetrated by people that purport to stand with us. History needs to see all of this, these facts need to live here as long as they can and on the blockchain cloud as long as that last - so I had to write it. Make of this what you will. Use it to see the world as it is. If you consider yourself a journalist and a truth-teller, use it to springboard your own serious work on this subject, not an excuse piece that totally misses the big picture.

If you are related to this story and do not like that I re-published, well maybe don't use subtle threats in the future toward a man that faced much better and scarier men than you, men that tried to kill me with their own hands. Don't threaten to "do it the hard way" when you never lived a life that informed you anything of the real hard way.

I have said my piece on this, the rest is for the very few that will connect the dots and for historians.

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Unmasking the Conspiracy Theory Club

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God hates lies and deception.

Leading others away from truth and into lies is wrong. When prominent people do that persistently for their livelihood, creating and spreading false stories, it’s called grifting and fraud. I see you. I SEE YOU!

Let me give you an example or two.

In March 2017, podcast host, Dr. Dave Janda broke a story brought to him by retired LTG Tom McInerney and Adm Ace Lyons. McInerney, until then, had been a Fox commentator.

That story of The Hammer “spying system”, exploded across the Internet and was so big that it earned a place in the “Strzok-Page text” messages, during the still ongoing Trump-Russia-Hoax.

Two ‘journalists’, Mary Fanning and Alan Jones made their website the central depository for all things they connected to THE HAMMER story and Fanning and McInerney were soon invited to @WVWOnline, the videocast of Brannon Howse.

The story went viral.

Fanning and McInerney told "their story" many times and even published a book, in August 2020, about "The Hammer" which you can still access for only $ 4.99.  Millions upon millions of people believed because numerous podcasters repeated the tale.

Followers of the Qanon conspiracy theory, mostly ordinary Americans who know that something is not right with the direction the country is headed, latched on to the Hammer story and spread it even more. There are many similar examples of the Hammer story shared by Qanon followers on social media.

AND THEN, just before the 2020 Presidential Election, the story morphed. Fanning and McInerney told Steve Bannon and Brannon Howse that a program called SCORECARD would be used with The Hammer to change the outcome of the election so that Joe Biden would win. How could a former CIA agent turned journalist and a retired general know such a thing?

Soon Mike Lindell joined forces with Brannon Howse and Mary Fanning to "expose" the theft of the 2020 election.  The trio of them produced three full-length documentaries. Lindell staked everything on that one, still unproven, story that originated in March 2017. A story that The Conspiracy Theory Club profited from since Dave Janda released that first fake Kraken in 2017.

Lindell has set up a "Cyber Symposium" for August 10-12 and has invited anyone to disprove that the election was stolen by means of the object of the March 2017 made up story – Hammer and SCORECARD. Drawing dozens to Lindell’s symposium is a $5 million carrot for anyone who can prove there was no foreign interference with the 2020 election.

There is much doubt whether Mike Lindell has irrefutable evidence of fraud that would prove, at least, that the McInerney/Fanning Hammer/SCORECARD story is true.  The concern expressed by Jeff Nyquist, is that failure to do so would inflict more damage on the wider election fraud story. Yet, Jeff himself failed to point out that it was Brannon Howse who provided cover, exposure, and technical support for Lindell’s story and production of three movies. In fact, Mr. Nyquist denied that Howse had worked with Mary Fanning to broadcast the Hammer story prior to November 2020 – a fact easily refuted with a simple search of the Internet.

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Why did Mr. Nyquist call out Brannon Howse and not Clare Lopez of Citizens Committee on National Security and Vice President for Research and Analysis with Center for Security Policy, who also used, former CIA agent, Mary Fanning as a source?

https://ccnationalsecurity.org/?s=mary+fanning

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Ms. Lopez states here, that Mary Fanning is her source on the “Club-K/Gulftainer” story, which was also investigated extensively by George Webb and another former CIA agent, Robert David Steele.

https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/gulftainer-club-k-and-the-threat-to-america/

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View the Battle Royale between associate club members over Club-K story.

 

Moving ON!

Election 2020 came, and wouldn't you know it - the election outcome was questionable. No problem - they were right! - Fanning and McInerney, again made the rounds of the "Conspiracy Theory Club" explaining what had happened.

First stop Brannon Howse https://www.worldviewweekend.com/tv/video/hammer-key-coup-general-mcinerney-and-mary-fanning

Doug Hagmann https://www.hagmannreport.com/special-guest-brannon-howse-mary-fanning-the-hammer-is-the-key-to-the-coup/

Dave Janda, Sidney Powell, Tom Fitton, Lou Dobbs  https://davejanda.com/lou-dobbs-sidney-powell-tom-fitton-on-the-hammer-scorecard/ (text only - video deleted). Janda continued to repeat the story as if repeating would make it come true. Sadly, even Janda's guests avoided pushback and refused to demand hard evidence.

Here in Janda’s April 15, 2021 show, “Vote Fraud Proof Keeps Emerging As Covid Lies Unravel: Dr. Janda” is @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU just sitting there, on behalf of John Birch Society, (@jbs) apparently. As Dave Janda carries on for nearly ten minutes about how “Hammer/SCORECARD” was used to steal the election, Newman offers no resistance, asked no question, demanded no evidence. 

John B Wells picks up the story, “The Hammer Is Key To The Coup”

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No less than five well-known publishers and their regular commentators have used Mary Fanning’s and Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney’s storyline to convince the public that somehow a known surveillance system facilitated vote-switching in the 2020 Presidential election. These publishers saturated both the “truther” movement and Qanon followers with the same unprovable information not once, but twice.

Next, we will take a closer look at Mary Cunningham Kirchhoefer (Fanning).

@realmajordan

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Who Let the Hammer Out

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Here is a tale of two narratives that merged. Our story begins in the summer of 2014, in Maricopa county Arizona when a man with a past that is, well let us just call it interesting for the time being, showed up at then Sheriff Arpaio's door with claims that he had proof of nefarious spying and fraud being conducted against residents of Maricopa county.[1)

We all remember Arpaio, the man that made prisoners sleep in tents and wear pink jumpsuits. Love him or hate him, we can all agree that he was a man that lived his convictions. He was also the fellow that opened an investigation into Obama’s birth certificate. By all outward appearances, Arpaio looked and smelled exactly like a man that would not sit by and ignore a claim such as that presented by Montgomery. And he absolutely was just that, a man of action. Arpaio assigned the matter to his "cold-case posse” and hired Montgomery as a consultant to prove his claims.

In hindsight, that being 20/20 and all, it seems reasonable that if one wanted to build a narrative over years and then use that narrative either as a grift for money or perhaps as some form of a disinformation campaign, that Arpaio was the perfect mark to release it into the wild. His involvement garnered some news coverage and even got the subject entered into court proceedings. But to make that assumption at this point in the story, well we would be getting ahead of ourselves.

The story did make it into court in 2015 [2] and audio recordings made by the MCSO were used in court and released to the public [3] – these will later come to be called the “whistleblower tapes”. Keep those recordings in mind, they become important two years later, the nexus of a much bigger part of this story and a significant turn of events. In fact, the phrase “the Hammer” first appears publically in this story in 2015.

Perhaps we ought to back up just a bit. Nested within the assertions that Dennis Montgomery initially brought to Joe Arpaio were two claims. One that Montgomery had access to software used by the US Government to collect signals intelligence (telecom records) and two that he had proof in the form of extracts from that database, a list of targets, with phone numbers, addresses, and connections. Montgomery claimed the software was called “Hammer”.

Lies are always wrapped in truth. What is apparent in this story is that the data excerpts looked legitimate enough to generate interest. Mike Zullo, lead investigator on the MCSO cold case posse assigned to this matter later stated that although it was impossible to validate the source of the data, the data itself looked legitimate. Other accounts seem to attest to that. Alex Jones claimed, and we must use and an entire bucket of Morton salt with his claims, that a phone number of his that only a handful of individuals had access to was on the list. All of this could, of course, be a lie, there are open source means of building such a list, perhaps, this data did not necessarily have to come from USG, specifically NSA, databases. It is interesting to note that in 2015 Judge G. Murray Snow threatened to turn Arpaio and the MCSO over to the DOJ because he believed they were potentially in possession of NSA files.

We cannot know if Montgomery handed over legitimate NSA files to the MCSO and in reality for this story, it does not matter. Revelations about who and what the NSA is, what they do and what their capabilities are have become common knowledge in the years since. It is no longer ‘no-such-agency’, we know they collect our data. What is important is the data looked legitimate enough to start the story, to get the ball rolling.

Wait you say, I thought Mary Fanning and her crew broke this story and then sold it to Mike Lindell. To quote Coach Lee Corso, “Not so fast”.  In 2015 The American Report was writing about their claim that the Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated and taken over the US Government.[4] If you look closely at those early AR pages you notice Clare Lopez is highlighted, oh but I have jumped ahead again, just put a pin in that, we will get to all that in later articles. What is the American Report anyway? Who is Mary Fanning and why are you convinced she "broke this story”? Because she told you? We do know that  Mary Fanning Kirchhoefer first registered that domain – but there I go again, jumping ahead. The American Report was about the Muslim take over of America and missiles in shipping containers from 2015 until 2017. There is some interesting meat on that bone, particularly in the “club’ that shared the K-club story, we will see all those faces again later.

In December of 2015, the narrative shifted. Zullo had uncovered Montgomery’s colorful past and no longer trusted him, but still believed there was some validity to the data he provided. This was also the first mention of the potential for voter fraud potentiality as a claim by Montgomery. [5] This part of the story sat dormant, out of the public eye for a year and a half. In the mainstream media, there was talk of Russia Gate, Crossfire Hurricane, and other matters but behind the scenes, Dr. Jerome Corsi joined Mike Zullo to dig into the implications of what the data Montgomery provided meant. Montgomery was of course off the team by this point, but his data seemed intriguing.

Fast forward to 2017. Enter Fanning calling Zullo to inquire about his intention to publish his findings. Zullo claims he told Fanning to “cool it, she did not know what she was talking about and he would go public in a couple of weeks”. Fanning published on Facebook three days later [6] and on the American Report four days later [7]. Remember the “whistleblower tapes” from above, those recordings of Montgomery by the MCSO that Judge Snow released, yeah, that is the basis of Fanning's claim. But just the basis, the American Report article added a lot of color and flavor to the story. The Hammer, as it came to be used in discussions of election fraud was full-formed now. Soon McInerney was rolled out to tout it and, well you remember that K-Club club, they all jumped on board too (Brannon Howse, Clare Lopez, George Webb, Beanz, Citizens Commission on National Security, etc, etc, etc.)

If you find it hard to believe that a group that just months before believed and pushed stories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating and taking over the US government and nuclear missiles in shipping containers could simply lift and shift is too fantastic to believe, well it is all there to see, the Internet Archive is our friend. How and why did they all do this in unison? There are many potential explanations.

If one were to ask me. And well, what do I know? But if you did, it certainly looks to me like the entire Hammer story was part of narrative crafted and developed over years, released into the wild by an easy mark (Arpaio) through the inclusion of data that looked, and may have been legitimate, all wrapped in a lie, told by a man with a provably checkered past and then later boosted and highlighted by an incestuous and tightly knit club. Why? Perhaps to build a counter-narrative of absurdity and lies that could later be used to infect and pollute any effort to examine legitimate concerns over election fraud.

Sound nuts?  Just look at the people involved. You tell me.

Dennis Montgomery had a checkered past, as mentioned above, here is one article describing that. Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security, NYT, 2011.

@onlyBarryLClark

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Money, Sex, Power, and Influence

The first, and perhaps primary objection, to the idea that an entire network of only loosely connected people could cooperate in some way to boost and amplify deception and propaganda, is a hard pill. Particularly when many of the names that emerge seem to have good intentions; some of these we like or have liked. Such coordination would appear to require a conspiracy, that they all ‘must be in on it” if they are part of it. “Yes”, “sorta” and most definitely “no”.

A conspiracy is required, but it need not be that large. MJ has already uncovered two persons in this saga that claim to be ‘former CIA’. Within the CIA are many masters at using money, sex, power, and influence to create effects (Read The Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf if you do not believe me). Of course just because as of 4 August 2021, we can identify two ‘former CIA’ officers does not mean they are the masterminds behind this. These are the only two that have revealed their legend.

But it does not require CIA officers, not many at least. These tools of the trade comport with human nature. All humans are susceptible to money, sex, power, and influence (the four prizes). All master manipulators know how to employ these tools.

If you are having a hard time imagining how various influencers and people with platforms came to be part of this, you do not have to imagine that they all understand the intended effect.

An aspiring writer, a person that wants to make a living with their words, would be a valid target for an approach. Perhaps they are offered interviews on a popular podcast and mentions of their books. The approach does not even have to be done directly by a person completely in the know. The approacher might themselves merely be acting upon a suggestion (coupled with the implied access to one of the four prizes). In this case, neither the writer nor the podcaster knows (necessarily) the full plan, they have each only reacted to social engineering that enticed them to commit acts in order to achieve a prize. Both individuals may be floaters and may have been groomed as such over a long period.

These social engineering efforts can build social association, something that, if there were common interests beyond seeking one of the four prizes, solidifies trust and connections further. Social associations make it easier to leverage more effects with unsuspecting targets in the group, the elements of peer association, group-think, and homogeneity set in.

Eventually, because of group affinity and investment in actions that ensure that one continues to gain access to one of the four prizes, members of the group become willing to go along with ideas they might have previously rejected. In essence, they should know a thing is wrong, disinformation, but they can no longer see it or are unwilling to.

It is not hard to accept how the conspiracy of disinformation the MJ is uncovering was translated into action. It is not even difficult to understand how some of the names that will be unmasked as participants seem to you to be good folks, with good intentions, some of them perhaps even called out part of all of this(there are reasons for that as you shall soon learn)

But make no mistake, everyone wrapped up in this web got there because they had a weakness that was exploited.

@onlyBarryLClark

Absolute Sabotage Series Summary

McInerney’s Role

Full Disclaimer

Thomas McInerney, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) is an odd case. A man that rose to the rank of a three-star general and then made a career of acting as a talking head on cable news, descended, sometime around 2017 into increasing absurdity. Most of us dismiss such cases, ‘he is old now, perhaps losing some faculties’, etc., these are our explanations.

However, as MJ is beginning to expose, McInerney is simply not an old general that perhaps ought to stay close to the house and play more cribbage. There is a network around him, folks that boost and highlight his words, use his image and rank, and spin further tales based upon that assumed credibility. McInerney is not the center of the universe that MJ is exposing, he is not the master-mind. But he has been important, for two reasons, his words, actions, and association with things that increasingly appear nefarious and deceptive have had a measurable effect, a couple of effects in fact.

It would seem, that in the aggregate, the effects of these deceptions have 1) made arguments about election fraud in 2020 look absurd to moderate, normalized bias people. 2) believers and followers of these deceptions have drifted further and further toward an extreme of incoherence, incapable of making solid arguments because so much poison has entered the reservoir they draw from.

There is no space here to dissect McInerney’s descent from talking head to what he has become, but two key points are relevant.  Early on in the 2020 election saga, McInerney made claims that 1) “a raid on servers occurred in Germany” [1] [2] and 2) that the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion was somehow involved perhaps in that raid and was certainly involved in sorting out the election mess. (Twitter was quick to spot this nonsense and those that never wanted to consider election fraud held it as proof of their position.)

The 305th claim originated, it seems, from things McInerney was told by Sydney Powell or by folks associated with her claims. Powell based her knowledge on a “whistleblower” known as ‘Spyder”.  There are two major problems with these claims, problems that a Lieutenant General ought to have seen immediately, it matters not that he is old and was Air Force, this is basic stuff.

First, despite the flashy name, the 305th is a TRADOC unit. It is designed for and tasked with training people. TRADOC units in the US Army are not designed to conduct operations, they do not have the right personnel nor structure. These sorts of units generally do not even have access to the latest technology. The schoolhouse is often years behind the field, particularly since the initiation of the GWOT. McInerney could have and should have known this in an instance.

Second, “Spyder” appears to not even be an intelligence soldier at all, rather a mechanic.

I argued with people, some D-list influencers, at the time that were boosting this story that it was not just wrong, but absurdly wrong, so absurd that it smelled of something else. For my efforts, I received only chastisement and blocks on social media. It seems there was a reason for circling the wagons.

Make no mistake, this sort of chicanery has effects. Innumerable Americans associate claims of election fraud with crackpot theories.  As MJ pointed out in her initial piece on their story, as early as 2 November 2020 some outlets in this circle were spinning up their explanation for why the election debacle occurred (two days before the election). They already had a story in place before it happened!

Many regular Americans and decision-makers in state government and on local election boards have simply refused to consider the matter because it was tainted so badly early. The left uses this as a tool to paint everyone talking of the issue as a wingnut. There was a definite effect.

One could also argue that the claims of ‘white-hats’ in the government fighting for us, and the ‘military is going to save us’ were not that much different than many things the QAnnon community said and believed. The deceptive narrative released and boosted by the circle MJ is now exposing played up that connection. They reached out to an audience that had been conditioned to expect these sorts of actions. It would not be a large leap to argue that some of those involved in the events of January 6th were in no small part motivated and influenced by these lies.

@onlyBarryLClark

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Brannon Howse and Absolute Sabatoge

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A few days after it was published, this piece, “Absolute Sabotage: The Rise and Coming Fall of a False Narrative” by Jeffrey Nyquist, appeared in my Twitter feed.  Mr. Nyquist outlined a series of events that informed him of a possible “trap” that could impact far more than Mike Lindell’s credibility in is his claims of electronic election interference in the 2020 Presidential election and he seemed to hold Mary Fanning responsible for creating the situation in which Lindell might find himself if he fails to deliver evidence he has promised. But Mr. Howse has played a much larger role in events involving Mr. Lindell than Nyquist gives him credit. This is not a story of a stolen election, but a story about people who came together to create a narrative about an election they seemingly knew could or would be stolen.

This story began on November 2, 2020, two days BEFORE the presidential election when Sidney Powell and Lt. General Thomas McInerny appeared as guests on, former Trump campaign manager, Steve Bannon’s show Warroom Pandemic.

Sidney Powell gained recent fame as an outspoken critic of the Department of Justice prosecution of Lt. General Michael Flynn for FARA violations.  Ms. Powell later became Flynn’s attorney while LTG Flynn was awaiting sentencing after his guilty plea. LTG McInerny’s fame grew from an accusation that he and Adm. Ace Lyons made on the Dave Janda show in March 2017 that one Dennis Montgomery, a former government contractor, insisted that former President Obama had directed James Clapper to use a “secret computer system,” nicknamed The Hammer or Hamr to spy upon prominent Americans including judges and politicians.

That story has been debunked since Mr. Montgomery’s lawsuit was later dismissed and other stories about Montgomery had been proven to be fabricated tales. Despite her charges being unprovable, journalist Mary Fanning pushed the story of the Hammer on her website.

Soon, WorldViewWeekend.com founder and conspiracy theorist, Brannon Howse, would broadcast Fanning’s wild and misleading stories on mass spying. This story was shared millions of times on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram as months and years went by – there were still believers because the story sounded so convincing because of the U.S. Government’s alarming actions in pursuing those who helped Donald J. Trump become the forty-fifth President of the United States.

Fanning had published an article on October 31, 2020, claiming that Biden was “stealing the election “just like Obama had done in 2012.”

On November 2, 2020, Lt. General Tom McInerny called into Steve Bannon’s show and proclaimed that President Obama had used a tool called SCORECARD to access and change votes in the 2012 election and that Joe Biden planned to do the same in the 2020 Presidential election to ensure that he won.  Bannon asked McInerny to state his credentials. Bannon then reinforced McInerny’s point by stating that “Hammer was a very effective tool used after 9-11 to monitor jihadis.”  McInerny continued that Sidney knows all about it and that they “know where it is.”  Bannon then asked about Dennis Montgomery and his involvement in these new accusations. This even though Montgomery’s case had been dismissed.  There was no evidence presented that might prove McInerny’s case.  In Bannon’s defense, he did ask Sidney Powell why his WarRoom Pandemic audience should believe him.  Powell offered zero evidence either.

On November 4, 2020, Brannon Howse enlarged McInerny’s tale when he hosted Mary Fanning and LTG McInerny who repeated their concerns nearly word-for-word. Over the ensuing weeks and months, others joined the chorus with Mary Fanning, Brannon Howse, and Mike Lindell – in a song based ENTIRELY (in practical terms) upon Lt. General McInerny’s claim that the “election was stolen electronically” through switched votes.

The three produced a 3-hour documentary with guest appearances by Matthew DePerno, Russ Ramsland, and Col. Phil Waldron. Howse frequently includes unaware and/or compliant guests such as the three above, who were involved in investigating and testifying about questionable election happenings. Others include Gordon Chang, Rich Higgins, and even LTG Mike Flynn, who Howse claims gave his post-pardon interview on worldviewweekend.com in December. Mary Fanning then echoed Howse’s Flynn interview under her own byline on Howse’s WVW website. Does Mary Fanning work for Brannon Howse?

In early July, Mike Lindell announced that “Trump would be re-instated on August 13th” once the evidence comes out at his planned Cyber Symposium on August 10-12.

And then, on July 22nd, Jeffrey Nyquist dropped his bombshell

Nyquist identified, Former CIA agent, Mary Fanning as the culprit in the “swindle.”  Mr. Howse was mentioned nine times!  It’s as if Mr. Nyquist is unaware of Howse and Fanning’s long “informational relationship.”  Google says:

 

Do you see the problem? Howse says the CIA is “behind the coup d’etat” yet his partner Mary Fanning is “former” CIA – is there even such a thing?

The entire story is rooted in the story of “The Hammer” spying tool and a program called “SCORECARD.” It is also a story that no one else has told and it provides no evidence at all.  Mike Lindell’s entire life, for the last nine months, has centered on a fabricated piece of disinformation.

Let’s not forget, it was Howse who produced, for Lindell, three full-length documentaries: “Absolute Proof”; “Absolute Interference”; and “Absolutely 9-0.”  It was Brannon Howse whose IT people developed and launched Lindell’s “not really” Social Media platform, Frank Speech.

So, I will ask Mr. Nyquist: Shouldn’t you give at least equal credit to both “influencers” Mary Fanning and Brannon Howse as “people with platforms” who have “mislead thousands?”

And yet…

@realmajordan

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Consolidation Phase Danger

We sense the import of the events of the last nineteen months, we know something has changed, that much hangs in the balance. There is one reality, one explanation, that if true, eclipses all others issues and data points; not just because it includes and explains all the others but because it directly impacts our present and future.

Stated simply, the United States underwent a color revolution in 2020, the final phase (crescendo) was completed on January 6th,2021. The methodology was executed almost textbook-like, it included all of the elements. It was also more advanced and complex than any other color revolution operation. It involved a whole-of-government approach in concert with political parties, the media, and other institutions. All of the chaos, crisis, lawfare, deception, all of it supported the effort. (see an explanation of color revolutions here)

Color Revolution

There are numerous implications generated by the claims above. Even if one can follow the methodology and template events and actions onto the model and see it present, it is hard to fathom how it could encompass not just the United States, but involve much of the world. This seems incomprehensible, impossible. Even if one can accept and see that the media played a pivotal role, it is hard to accept they did so willingly. The degree of coordination that would take, logically we assume that is not possible.

And yet, the explanation fits. The methodology is clearly present to the observer that is honest and objective.

There is one key difference between our color revolution and those the US has supported in other places. It appears the goal here was not to replace a regime but to replace the system of government with one that looks and sounds the same but is ultimately very different. Some claim the world will never go back to how it was, but few consider that it never can once this is complete. There will be no ability to simply vote it all back because foundational things will change, safeguards will have disappeared and our conception of law and liberty will change. It is much more than just COVID going on. All of the coincidences, chaos, crisis, the deception (left and right) all of it built toward state capture.

Few have written or talked of this phenomenon, not the totality of it, not the methodology and fewer still have used the terminology to define it. Darren Beattie, of Revolver News, perhaps became the most famous last year, but he began talking about it months after others. And here is the thing, Beattie uses the term to claim it was simply an effort to get rid of Trump. This line of reasoning ignores a couple of enormous difficulties, facts. This took a whole-of-government approach firstly, and secondly, it required the implementation of policies that enabled the mosaic of crisis. It took the President and the support of both parties to make this happen. Trump did the things that enabled this, whether one wants to argue that he was duped or part of it, I will leave to others to decide. I can only state as fact that the color revolution could not have occurred without Trump. Beattie is wrong, intentionally or unintentionally I do not know.

What Beattie gets right is to point out the history of FBI and other National Security apparatus (NATSEC) involvement in a number of various plots and schemes they themselves uncover. Often the plots would never gain any steam if the FBI was not pushing, plotting, and planning the event. 

The primary difficulty of most to grasp the above is the scope and scale of it all, by implication, this effort had to reach into many offices, public and private. It did. But it did not have to involve everyone, and not even those involved had to know much more than what they needed to. Undoubtedly, there were internal information operations aimed just at keeping key people on task and on the talking points. It is not difficult to do that, particularly considering the incestuous nature of the beltway.

It is not even difficult, if one is honest, to understand the global nature of this. The World Economic Forum has not made a secret of its goals, goals presented to most of the world’s leaders, goals that seem to be progressing very nicely over the last year and a half.

The methodology compared to what has happened is easy to see. Objections based upon normalization bias are easy to overcome. The only question remains; what is to be done.

 

What to Do in the Consolidation Phase

If you pay attention, you cannot help but wonder, “How did Alex Jones know all this, years ago”? The guy went from being a joke in 2019 to a Nostradamus in 2021. But how?

The most logical answer is, he is part of it, he is playing a role. The old joke that if YouTube kicks you off you should build your own, Jones did just that. It seems comical, but ponder that. How did he know, almost step-by-step what was going to happen, how did he build a video platform that supports millions of views? The best lies have a lot of truth in them, you attract people with the truth and lead them astray with the lie.

Jones is not alone, not by a long shot. Q, BLM, ANTIFA, MAGA all have their lesser deities, folks like Jones. All of those have elements that indicate they were run as disinformation and PSYOP operations. People that know and say things, people that gain trust; many of these are not what they seem. You can, for instance, find many of the same voices that boosted Q and other obvious PSYOPs still active and drawing audiences, now boosting new influencers. To what end? The people that were ultimately behind Q (it was not a pig farmer at the top) did not just go away, that was state-actor level skills.

Here is just one twisted tale of how influencers, heroes, and people with platforms have misled thousands - by J.R. Nyquist

In a time of crisis, people seek answers and they seek heroes, they want hope. It is that desire and that promise that resulted in January 6th and provided those that want total control the pretext to begin the steps necessary to remove the possibility of resistance.

January 6th was not enough. It was not kinetic enough. It is absurd that they have people locked in solitary confinement for trespassing and ordinary people know that. Reasonable people see that. It was not big enough to be their Reichstag fire. They need another event.

Many influential voices are building toward that now. Jones will state on each show “humanity is doomed, but you can stop them if you act”. Others speak more subtly, but it is there to see. “We must act”. Many such voices are saying this now, almost in concert.

Unless they are actually working for the other side (and by that, I do not mean the political divide – and many seem to be compromised DISINFO agents) many making this call fail to realize the scope of the threat. They do not realize that we are in the consolidation phase and the oligarchy wants an overreaction. They want the pretext.

Historically, no nation has ever escaped a color revolution in the consolidation phase. This was the most advanced color revolution to date. Those are facts. These things can be and have been thrown off, but it takes years. The best advice we can seek is to look for new heroes, vet them better, and act only at a time and in ways that do not actually tighten out bonds.

@onlyBarryLClark

We do Not Believe You

The below is really nothing more than a diary entry of sorts. A snapshot in time of things many around me see. If you observe the world with discernment, there is nothing here for you, just a restatement of what you know. If you are confused about the world, this article is not a polemic intended to convince you. This is just a snapshot of what I see, others too.

Yesterday, July 27, 2021, the United States Congress began hearings related to the events of January 6, 2021. The initial hearing included testimony by four, I believe four, police officers and not a small bit of crying by members of congress and the officers themselves.

January 6th (1/6 as it has been labeled to place it in a properly 'ominous' category) was an “assault on the sacred and holy institutions of Democracy” we have been told, many times. It was an “insurrection” we have been ad are increasingly told.

To a reasonable observer, we saw something in between soccer hooligans in Britain and the riots and looting in the summer of 2020, and frankly, it was objectively much closer to soccer hooligans than rioters and looters burning cities.

But those statements are polemic. There is a reason that soccer fans are so rowdy, there are reasons that people burned, looted, destroyed, and killed people in the summer of 2020 and there are reasons that the events of January 6th happened.

Don't get the next paragraph twisted alert

I am intellectually honest enough to say that the people involved in riots last year had justifications. The people that marched through the Capitol building had justifications. Not all of the justifications of either group were or are always based upon the complete truth, sometimes each group got many things very wrong. Sometimes they were deceived and spun up by grifters, agitators, and very likely by people within our own government.

I am not making an analogy between the riots and January 6th. I am saying that I am honest enough to know that even though I think almost all of the reasons that people held to be true that drove them into the streets with bricks and matches last year were perversions of something that held some truth. It is curious, and disturbing that nobody wants to give those that entered the Capitol the same benefit of the doubt.

Just this week, crowds in France surrounded their president's house and when they were not heard, brought on tractors hauling tanks of liquid excrement and sprayed his residence. Not an insurrection it seems.

In France the government stopped getting in the way of mobs that were angry, they stopped that about 1791, which did not turn out very well. The French get riled up every year and take to the streets about something. They have justification, I usually do not agree with them but the French government has come to the conclusion that they have to blow off the steam of their frustration. It is either that or kill them all, which often ends poorly.

We know what nations kill and imprison protestors and mobs of people that are angry, China. We remember Tiananmen square, they literally machine-gunned hundreds and then rewrote the history of the event. They exercised more patience with the Hong Kong protests, they simply placed people on a list and made them disappear over time. Never go full China, and yet, what are we about to do?

Therefore, some of us look at the January 6th commission and see a pretty dangerous thing occurring. We do not believe the testimony of the “brave” officers that came forward to cry. We do not believe that January 6th was more terrifying than deployment to Iraq (unless the person sat comfortably on some FOB at a desk, in a bunker).

We know there are video cameras everywhere in D.C. and that in the crowd there were thousands of more recordings of things. If this commission wanted to get to the truth of the matter, there is enough video to start that process. Why has the public not seen this video? Why does the DOJ only release small bits, often out of context with the other things going on?

The “lived experience” and testimony of four guys, most of which have said some pretty partisan things online, is not evidence, not when there is real evidence available.

We do not believe you; we do not believe you are seeking truth. We do not believe you have good intentions.

An intellectually honest and decent person can know something is both wrong, and that there are reasons that people believe it.

I think folks that want to burn, loot and kill because they believe they are oppressed are immoral. I also know there are reasons (yes, they have liars in their ears) but some of them, for reasons, (sometimes their fault sometimes not) cannot get jobs, our system is not perfect and can always be improved (the right way).

Leftists that are now salivating about the fact that those “disgusting MAGA people” are going to “get theirs” ought to try and be a little intellectually honest too. Yes, those people were told some lies and deceived….but why did they believe them, what is true that made them susceptible.

What about our system that is so corrupt, illegitimate, and flawed that makes people want to burn cities and march through the Capitol? We need a commission for that.